The Hottest Game This Christmas? Carl on Duty: Black Cops
This is so stupid and funny, I'm pissed I didn't think of it. To whomever put this together -- kudos good sir (or madam)!
Tag: Police
More Posters of the WPA (Works Progress Administration)
Just when you thought you'd seen the last (well, only) gallery of posters from the Works Progress Administration, BAM! Here comes another one, only four years later.
According to Wikipedia, the WPA was the largest and most ambitious of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agencies, employing millions of workers to carry out public works projects. Agency workers constructed public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.
Nearly every community in the United States had a park, bridge or school constructed by the agency, which especially benefited rural and Western areas. The budget at the outset of the WPA in 1935 was $1.4 billion a year (about 6.7 percent of the 1935 GDP), and in total it spent $13.4 billion.
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Here’s some stuff I enjoyed this week
Here’s a fresh batch of some quality interweb finds I’ve come across over the last 7 days or so:
You've read endless commentary on the Miami University football booster scandal involving Nevin Shapiro, why not read the original investigation by Charles Robinson? (Yahoo! Sports)
A very cool photo gallery by Natsumi Hayashi, the "levitating girl" from Tokyo (Geekologie)
Will Google+ be able to unseat Flickr as the premiere destination for photographers on the web? (TechCrunch)
A fascinating gallery of photographs taken by the East German Stasi (secret police) during the Cold War era. (Conscientious Extended)
You'd swear this article on the role of police patrols and the impact of broken windows in a neighborhood wasn't written almost 30 years ago, it's so relevant (The Atlan
Hansen and perverts and tasers that sting…
...these are a few of my favorite things!
There are so many things to love about this newest segment of Dateline's "To Catch a Predator," I don't know where to begin (if you want the money shot, skip to the five-minute mark). First off, this guy is willing to drive almost six hours to hook up with someone he had just started chatting with. Folks, sexual perversion and a complete lack of impulse control are a dangerous mix.
Next, despite the fact that this creep is in the house (and presumably about to seal the deal), he still feels the need to lie about himself to impress the ladies. I don't know much about police work, but I'm pretty sure they don't promote to lieutenant after just one year on the force (turns out he was a trainee for about two months then got the boot).
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